Scott Hahn has created easily digestible narrative not lacking in scholarship or devoid of the insights of Faith. This narrative, using Liturgy as an unlocking theme opens up The Book of Revelations to the reader and using The Book of Revelation unlocks the mysteries of Liturgy for the Participant. Christians who do not have Liturgy will better understand what their brothers-in-Faith are doing and those of us who go through the motions without understanding will find new meaning in our Worship. As Scott Hahn attests, there is nothing new in what he is presenting; Hahn has gathered what has been known, and introduced it to a modern audience gathering from the Judeo-Christian traditions via History, Scripture, writings of the Church Fathers, and the Church’s Teachings.


Part 1, covers sacred Scripture and the Mass

Part 2, covers the Literal sense of The Book of Revelation

Part 3, what it all means



Things of Interest that appear in the book

-Old Testament Typology and imagery

-Eschatology and liturgical language

-Apocalypse as unveiling

-Parousia as the Presence of Christ

-Passover and Todah; Thank Offering or Thanksgiving

-Mount Zion the Heavenly Jerusalem on Earth

-Rorschach blot



-Connecting feature of the Gospel of John and The Book of Revelation; Christ came as a Lamb and will return as a lamb; the use of Lamb of God by John and others.


-Book of revelation is divided into two parts at chapter 11.

Part one resembles the liturgy of the Word.

Part two resembles the liturgy of the Eucharist.



-Old Testament Use:

Book of Daniel, Book of Ezekiel; Elijah, Moses, Genesis, Jericho, King David, Solomon, Arc of the Covenant, The Temple, and more.


-In this book is also found,

a warning to the Faithful, Faith;

a call to Worship, Hope;

the unveiled presence of God , Love.
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This is one of my favorites; timeless and priceless. I have bought so many copies because I keep giving it to people to read/borrow and I never get it back. I just hope they pass it along too. Nouwen in his great way tells a non-Christian why God loves him, loves all of us. ( )

Dr. Scott Hahn provides another book that explains in very easy to understand terms the relevance of the Mass today. The book is divided into 3 parts each with 4 chapters. I highly recommend this book to any Catholic and to anybody interested in the meaning of the Mass. ( )